Multifunctional foaming composition with wettability modifying, corrosion inhibitory and mineral scale inhibitory/dispersants properties for high temperature and ultra high salinity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11149185-B2
Application number	US-202016782915-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 5, 2020
Priority date	Nov 18, 2014
Publication date	Oct 19, 2021
Grant date	Oct 19, 2021

Abstract

The present invention is related to the obtaining and using of multifunctional foaming compositions with wettability modifying, corrosion inhibitory and inhibitory/dispersants mineral scale properties with high stability in environments of high temperature, high pressure and tolerance to high concentrations of divalent ions such as calcium, magnesium, strontium and barium. The multifunctional foaming compositions are obtained from the combination of supramolecular complexes resulting from interactions of alkyl amido propyl hydroxysultaines and/or alkyl amido propyl betaines and/or alkyl hydroxysultaines and/or alkyl betaines and anionic surfactant of type alkyl hydroxyl sodium sulfonate and alkenyl sulphonates of sodium, with cationic surfactants as tetra-alkyl ammonium halides and copolymers derivatives of itaconic acid/sodium vinyl sulfonate and/or terpolymers derived from itaconic acid/sodium vinyl sulphonate/aconitic acid. These multinational foaming compositions control the gas channeling and favorably change the wettability and increase the recovery factor of crude oil in naturally fractured reservoirs of carbonate type and heterogeneous lithology. In addition to this, the multifunctional foaming compositions of this invention exhibit anti-corrosive properties in typical environments of production tubing of crude oil and antifouling/dispersants of mineral salts as calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, barium and strontium in the reservoir and in the production and injection pipelines.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for preparing a foaming composition, comprising:
mixing an alkyl amido propyl hydroxysultaine, an alkyl amido propyl betaine, an alkyl hydroxysultaine, an alkyl betaine, or a combination thereof, with an anionic surfactant selected from an alkyl hydroxy sulphonate of sodium, an alkenyl sulphonate of sodium, or a combination thereof, thereby providing a first mixture;
mixing an alkyl amido propyl hydroxysultaine, an alkyl amido propyl betaine, an alkyl hydroxysultaine, an alkyl betaine, or a combination thereof, with a tetra-alkyl ammonium halide cationic surfactant, thereby providing a second mixture; and
mixing the first mixture and the second mixture to provide the foaming composition.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising mixing the foaming composition with a copolymer derived from itaconic acid/sodium vinyl sulfonate, a terpolymer derived from itaconic acid/sodium vinyl sulfonate/aconitic acid, or a combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising mixing the foaming composition with a zwitterionic geminal liquid.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising mixing the foaming composition with a zwitterionic geminal liquid.

Assignees

• Mexicano Inst Petrol

Inventors

• Hernández Altamirano Raúl
• Zamudio Rivera Luis Silvestre
• Mena Cervantes Violeta Yázmin
• Luna Rojero Erick Emanuel
• Nieto Álvarez David Aarón
• Cisneros Devora Rodolfo
• Pons Jiménez Mirna
• Ramírez Estrada Alejandro
• Mendoza Aguilar América Elizabeth
• Kim Sung Jae Ko

Classifications

• C09K23/017

  Mixtures of compounds · CPC title

• C23F11/173

  Macromolecular compounds · CPC title

• C23F11/163

  Sulfonic acids · CPC title

• C09K8/536

  characterised by their form or by the form of their components, e.g. encapsulated material · CPC title

• C09K2208/32

  Anticorrosion additives · CPC title